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wills:
--- Quote from: "landroverkeith" ---:? :lol: opps lol found out today that my car will no longer fit under the barriers at riverside shopping center being a clever bunny i went flying under it knowing theres just enuf clearance so i can pick up the landsharks food :oops: i forgot however i had just raised my cb ariels to the top of the rack :oops: bang clangggggg thund tinkle tinkle and in my mirrors i can see one of the ariels ripped clean off its mount and the other was at a very funny angle much to the delight of the xmas shoppers :roll: lucky for me no real damage just mushed the threads at the top of the mount so i screwed it all back together with a bit of force and it went back luvlay
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It sounds like you were lucky. I was there at the end of August coming out of homebase at about 5ish in the afternoon when all of a sudden BANG and a kind of loud cracking/ruffling sound. Turned around to see an LDV van wedged under the barrier. One of those high ones that most double glazing vans are. Was an older typre with a plastcy/fibreglass roof. He ripped the front roof rails off and they were on the floor and sliced the top off all the way back along to around the rear axles when he came to a stop. Only way he could get back out was to reverse and as he did he then got the front moulded part that deflects the wind caught and ripped that off as well. The guy was only borrowing the van from work it sounded like as he was getting an earful, funny as hell to watch but in the end i felt quite sorry for him when i saw how much damage he had done!
Gotta be careful with my P38 though, I have the roof rails and unless I lower the vehicle to access mode it wont fit in Sol Centrals car park OR the Grovesnor centre one either. Also had some trouble in London when I tried to use a multistory and thought I would be low enough with EAS on access only to find I cleared the barrier by about an inch, was the most nerve racking and slow (with angry drivers behind me) journey round that car park ever!
-Wills :)
barnhill4x4:
My mother has a 300tdi Disco, SHe parked in a multi storey in Cardiff. She had 5 people in the car including her, Going in was fine. Parked the car, all got out and with the weight out of the car it went up and popped the light tube above it!
Evilgoat:
Hmm, CB ants can be grat too, going round West Quay multi story :
screeeeeeeee tWANGGGGG!..screeeeeeeeee...Twant, claunk. not taken a light out yet...
dreadnought110:
I have marks on my CB aerials that are mounted on the wings so i go slow and see if they will fit under the height barrier if not i annoy the people behind and back up.. 8) 8)
Snooky:
My problem is the roof bars, well my inability to be bothered to remove them, they smack the barrier every day at work, just need to remember to take em off if I try to go in with the mud tyres and wheels on, 16" with Macho's I'm guessing will be a bit taller than the 15" alloys with AT's on.. :wink:
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